Do you think banning "Baby its cold outside" is helpful or necessary In terms of feminism?

After considering the lyrics I can understand why radio stations would consider the song to be creepy and reflective of sexism , but I also think the correlation between that song and encouraging or normalizing sexism is a little far fetched?

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Feminism is a circus of the absurd. Nothing feminists try to ban surprises me any more. That's why I and most of the rest of the world simply ignore them.

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When you get to that point of absurdity...When you tell people they aren’t “allowed” to at least “appreciate” something as a “cultural artifact” from a time when values were different than they are now and view them in such a context... then you are not talking about feminism anymore but fascism, basically . Then you have to start banning a lot of museums, destroying libraries, burning books, banning certain plays and musicals, many works of art and so on. Which is the type of “cultural re-education” fascistic and totalitarian regimes throughout history have imposed upon their citizens...sometimes at the point of a sword.

According to NPR, It looks like a radio station decided to ban the song, not because someone was offended, like a feminist or Christian.

Actually, feminists said the song shouldn’t be banned, in the article.

Then a tv host Piers Morgan, in Britain, found a feminist to disagree with him about whether the song should be banned.

Years ago a Muslim man was offended by it, but that’s one man. Is the press saying all Muslims want the song banned? Not yet. That may be the next bit of media fake frenzy we’ll see next.

I could care less. I talk to women and men about the news, and we’re discussing the California fires, the election scandal in NC, and the latest silly thing Trump tweeted. Who cares about a Xmas song, except the media?

It's actually a feminist song if you think about it. The song is about the struggle of having to deal with a social standard that didn't accept women or men having premarital sex or staying with someone of the opposite sex they're not married too. Feminists are against this standard too, so in actuality feminists should promote the song, not want to ban it.

Feminists in fact spoke against that standard in the past and even fought to eliminate it during the sexual revolution. Why feminists can't see that the song is promoting their views is beyond me.

There’s a lot of rap music that is blatantly demeaning of women and blatantly promotes violence against women, but feminists won’t condem that because it’s viewed as a black cultural thing, much as feminists won’t acknowledge Muslim rape gangs, do instead they go after “Baby it’s cold outside”. Get real.

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Do you think banning "Baby its cold outside" is helpful or necessary In terms of feminism?

After considering the lyrics I can understand why radio stations would consider the song to be creepy and reflective of sexism , but I also think the correlation between that song and encouraging or normalizing sexism is a little far fetched?